# Will intelligent life emerge from a simulation?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDAI 2023
- Speaker: Edward Saatchi
- Year: 2023
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/edward_saatchi_will_intelligent_life_emerge_from_a_simulation)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Take a tour of "Sim Francisco," a digital metropolis bustling with thousands of AI characters, each experiencing unique lives across diverse neighborhoods. The city's creator — entrepreneur and filmmaker Edward Saatchi — presents animated snippets from these AI lives and explores the possibility that a new intelligence might emerge not from deliberate human creation but rather as an unforeseen and accidental outcome of these complex simulations.

## Lectures

1. [Will intelligent life emerge from a simulation?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/edward_saatchi_will_intelligent_life_emerge_from_a_simulation/08faf4b3584b), 9 min (TED's player)